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• THE SECOND RULE I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS A BRAND-NEW RULE I CREATED CHAPTER 60 5K RELATED TO CERTIFICATION
• WERE THEY GAVE FEEDBACK ON THE DRAFT RULE.
• THE EMERGENCY RULE CAN BE IDENTICAL TO THE RULE ADOPTED AND SUBJECT TO RATIFICATION.
• ALTHOUGH THE EMERGENCY RULES ARE IN EFFECT FOR 90 DAYS, THOSE RULES HAVE A WEDDING RATIFICATION THE EMERGENCY
• TO BREAK IT DOWN WE HAVE HAD SOME ISSUES WITH EMERGENCY RULES WHERE THE EMERGENCY RULES HAVE BEEN REPUBLICAN

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• Rule is reviewed without objection. We'll move on to D. Rule D does two things.
• That's the intent behind this rule.
• Without objection, this rule is reviewed. Item I. Well, thank you for this rule. I'm out.
• This rule— you all approved the emergency rule for this in June, but this is the permanent rule that's
• And so any changes between the emergency rule and this rule? No. Okay.

Summary: The committee reviewed a series of Arkansas Department of Human Services and Department of Health rules, with most items receiving no objection. DHS Medical Services presented a rule to restore continuous glucose monitors to Medicaid durable medical equipment and pharmacy benefits after addressing provider concerns, and another rule to allow hospitals to bill at a rehabilitation level of care when patients are receiving only rehab services in an acute-care setting, while also moving Medicaid utilization management review from day 4 to day 7 for most hospitals and day 10 for rehab hospitals. Members questioned whether the rehab rule could lead to children being sent out of state, but DHS said the intent was to keep patients in-state and reimburse appropriately; the rule was reviewed without objection. DHS also presented PACE program updates to align with federal requirements and Act 144, and a separate personal care manual rewrite that would replace the Arkansas Independent Assessment with a claims-based medical eligibility review by Optum, clarify hourly service flexibility, and comply with Acts 625 and 853; both were reviewed without objection. The committee then heard a Medicaid eligibility rule from DHS County Operations that excludes foster care/adoption subsidy income for certain eligibility groups, clarifies treatment of 529 accounts, tax refund interest, and independence accounts for workers with disabilities, and carries an estimated fiscal impact of $485,000 in year one and $586,000 in year two. Members asked about account limits and how the independence accounts work; DHS explained they must be established while the person is in the workers-with-disabilities category and can continue to be excluded in other Medicaid categories, with no cap on deposits. The committee also reviewed a permanent DHS mental health rule allowing general or medical-surgical hospitals to operate adolescent substance abuse units and bill Medicaid, following an emergency rule approved in June. DHS said the first such unit had opened at Unity in Searcy, with no other hospitals currently in the pipeline, and members discussed follow-up care, grant support, and the use of existing hospital infrastructure. Finally, the Department of Health presented an annual update to the controlled substances list, adding substances tied to Act 934 of 2025 on intoxicating hemp and other DEA/Arkansas concerns, with no public comments received. Health also proposed repealing the separate synthetic marijuana products rule because those substances are already covered by the controlled substances list. Both Health items were reviewed without objection, and the committee adjourned after completing its agenda.

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• Three-day rule. So moved, Mr. President. Senator Blanco moves suspension of the three-day rule.
• Senator Cook moves to suspend the constitutional three-day rule. Suspension of the three-day rule.
• The rule is suspended.
• The rule is suspended.
• Members, Senator Creighton moves suspension of the three-day rule. A rule, there is objection.

Bills: SB128 , SB203 , SB317 , SB393 , SB397 , SB731 , SB781 , SB801 , SB867 , SB1071 , SB1086 , SB1087 , SB1232 , SB1262 , SB1444 , SB1483 , SB1782 , SB1798 , SB1861 , SB1897 , SB1944 , SB2023 , SB2082 , SB2215 , SB2309 , SB2497 , SB2549 , SB2566 , SB2603 , SB2607 , SB2617 , SB2688 , SB2797 , SB2799 , SB2841 , SB2891 , SB2919 , SB2928 , SB2969 , SB2994 , SB3070 , HB 11 , HB 12 , HB26 , HB33 , HB34 , HB45 , HB48 , HB 130 , HB148 , HB198 , HB210 , HB303 , HB647 , HB668 , HB677 , HB762 , HB791 , HB 1022 , HB 1041 , HB 1188 , HB 1240 , HB 1242 , HB 1261 , HB1318 , HB1397 , HB1465 , HB1520 , HB1535 , HB1729 , HB1778 , HB1950 , HB2003 , HB2027 , HB2029 , HB2559 , HB2596 , HB2607 , HB2692 , HB2712 , HB2742 , HB2768 , HB2775 , HB2788 , HB2802 , HB2894 , HB3474 , HB3594 , HB3611 , HB3698 , HB3699 , HB3700 , HB4187 , HB4753 , HB4804 , HB4850 , HB4885 , HB5061 , HB5238 , HB5560 , HCR90 , SJR34 , SB529 , SB541 , SB693 , SB963 , SB1173 , SB1646 , SB1734 , SB1833 , SB1968 , SB2544 , SB1 , SB17 , SB260 , SB509 , SB1506 , SB1637 , SB2308 , SJR36 , SJR50 , SJR63 , SCR12 , SCR39 , SB2023 , SB128 , SB2309 , SB1861 , SB2617 , SB62 , SB666 , SB847 , SB284 , SB854 , SB810 , SB1505 , SB583 , SB507 , SB1434 , SB1772 , SB2016 , SB1122 , SB731 , SB397 , SB508 , SB1436 , SB287 , SB1882 , SB393 , SB1791 , SB209 , SB2429 , SB511 , SB1085 , SB1975 , SB2717 , SB1262 , SB636 , SB2056 , SB884 , SB1200 , SB1845 , SB2458 , SB801 , SB3014 , SB3013 , SB758 , SB2797 , SB2076 , SB2876 , SB1640 , SB1449 , SB1181 , SB1234 , SB2926 , SB2841 , SB1528 , SB2891 , SB1854 , SB317 , SB1250 , SB2082 , SB1237 , SB2819 , SB629 , SB2608 , SB1602 , SB2009 , SB867 , SB640 , SB1698 , SB2680 , SB913 , SB1071 , SB1086 , SB1087 , SB1483 , SB1444 , SB1553 , SB1556 , SB1703 , SB2133 , SB2297 , SB2298 , SB2622 , SB2955 , SB2334 , SB1367 , SB2044 , SB2363 , SB2565 , SB1888 , SB3036 , SB3057 , SB3043 , SB3063 , SB3035 , SB203 , SB2799 , SB2688 , SB2522 , SB2459 , SB2655 , SB2251 , SB1884 , SB2928 , SB2566 , SB1749 , SB2549 , SB2553 , SB2919 , SB1782 , SB1944 , SB1232 , SB2969 , SB2497 , SB1798 , SB2603 , SB2607 , SB781 , SB524 , SB2233 , SB2683 , HB1393 , HB2559 , HB26 , HB2607 , HB3810 , HB388 , HB 12 , HB2712 , HB2692 , HB1633 , HB1318 , HB685 , HB4753 , HB2742 , HB303 , HB198 , HB1535 , HB762 , HB148 , HB1520 , HB5061 , HB2286 , HB1606 , HB 1041 , HB132 , HB 11 , HB45 , HB48 , HB 1261 , HB1465 , HB1778 , HB2596 , HB5238 , HB33 , HB 1188 , HB210 , HB 1022 , HB1458 , HB5560 , HB 1240 , HB1950 , HB2027 , HB2768 , HB2788 , HB2791 , HB3146 , HB3698 , HB3699 , HB1893 , HB3700 , HB4850 , HB4187 , HB1397 , HB4885 , HB4804 , HB3751 , HB3611 , HB2775 , HB2061 , HB2003 , HB1729 , HB 1242 , HB791 , HB2029 , HB647 , HB2522 , HB4738 , HB3033 , HB3594 , HB3474 , HB2563 , HB2802 , HB34 , HB 128 , HB 130 , HB581 , HB668 , HB677 , HB766 , HB2259 , HB2960 , HB2358 , HB2894 , HB4384 , HB2663 , HB748 , HB793 , HB 1193 , HB1734 , HB2340 , HB2350 , HB3104 , HB5180 , HB4739 , HB1584 , HB4344 , HB4238 , HB4219 , HB3806 , HB3805 , HB3804 , HB3803 , HB3229 , HB3228 , HB1922 , HB1522 , HB431 , HB3597 , HB1612 , HB4224 , HB754 , HB1314 , HB2254 , HB2789 , HB3560 , HB4643 , HB 1237 , HCR90 , HCR98 , SJR60 , SB1319 , SB1978 , SB3038 , SB3045 , SB1633 , HB3126 , HB2856 , HB3114 , HB3041 , HB3505 , HB4205 , HB5652 , HB3687 , HB5424 , HB4506 , HB3370 , HB2025 , HB4273

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• Um, please excuse this freshman question, but we have rules in the House, the Senate has rules.
• in the house, the Senate we have rules in the house, the Senate has<00:16:35.320><c> rules.
• </c> us to fix our rules. us to fix our rules.
• , let the Rules put into House Rules, let the Rules Committee Committee Committee uh<00:24:45.880><c>
• </c><00:25:17.880><c> Now,</c> rules?" And I firmly believe that. Now, rules?"

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• Okay, we have a series of IDAPA rules, administrative rules, on our agenda today, so I will turn the
• So again, you have before you a temporary rule and a pending rule. We weren't able to negotiate.
• So again, you have before you a temporary rule and the pending rule.
• I feel okay about that rule.
• And at that time... pending rules.

Committee: House Agricultural Affairs

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• Speaker, under supplemental agreement rule 13.3, if a question of germaneness is ruled under House Rule
• </c> the ruling of the the ruling of the speaker?
• </c><00:36:39.359><c> of</c> rules in here and not just the rule of rules in here and not just the rule
• We are here to interpret rules. This is a very plain rule.
• That's not how<01:02:29.200><c> rules</c> how rules how rules work.<01:02:32.319><c> Representative</

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• One is a temporary rule and one is a pending rule.
• I move to extend temporary rule docket number 166 I move to extend temporary rule docket number, 16-0602
• Same rule should be hopefully a little quicker.”
• be repealed in the state rules.
• That’s all we had on the agenda for rules.

Committee: House Health and Welfare

Transcript Highlights:

• Because of the Supreme Court ruling and their action, Evers can put things into rule that carries the
• So in light of this recent court ruling, what a...
• The result of that ruling was to sort of sever the legislative review track from the rule promulgation
• ruling, the rule would be submitted to the legislature for referral. ...the rule would be submitted
• Under the circuit court’s ruling, after the rule goes through the rulemaking process and gets approved

Committee: House Assembly Committee on Environment

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• The rule is adopted. Next rule adoption is part of a larger project.
• So we would republish both the proposed rule. rule again and the rule as suggested by Mr.
• All right, I have a motion to publish the rule. rule amendments to Chapter 10.
• Rules are published.
• And I should note, too. that the rules also, proposed rules, would strike the existing rules. that would

Summary: The Texas Ethics Commission met on March 11, 2025, first in executive session and then in open session. The chair announced that, in light of Texas Attorney General Opinion KP-484, the commission would conform its practices to the opinion and move to repeal tolling rules for sworn-complaint deadlines. The chair also said the commission would dismiss 36 pending sworn-complaint cases in which the 120-day settlement deadline had been exceeded, even though the delay had been tolled under prior TEC rules. The commission then set future meeting dates for June 12 and September 17 and approved prior meeting minutes. The commission adopted a new criminal-referral rule clarifying that, once jurisdiction over a complaint is accepted, commissioners may vote to make a criminal referral. It also adopted revised advisory-opinion rules, with a clarifying amendment from a commenter, and republished proposed changes to the definition of “principal purpose” for political committees after staff recommended a 49 percent political-activity threshold and further public input. The commission published for comment proposed changes to ethics training rules, facial-compliance review procedures, late-filing waiver and reduction rules, and sworn-complaint procedures, including tighter discovery limits, a default-order set-aside process, and removal of tolling language inconsistent with KP-484. It also republished Chapter 28 rules on Speaker-candidate reporting. The commission adopted several advisory opinions. It declined to give an affirmative defense on whether certain school-district communications were political advertising because related litigation had already addressed the issue. It reaffirmed that a House member may use donated district-office space if it is not reimbursable with public funds and was accepted before the contribution moratorium. It also concluded that a judge may use political funds for travel to a Navy-hosted event as a local dignitary, that legislators’ use of a corporate aircraft for a border-region fact-finding trip could be permissible but would likely trigger reporting obligations, that a TCEQ commissioner’s revolving-door restrictions apply only to matters actually placed before the commissioner, and that a part-time legislative staffer may not take outside employment assisting a registered lobbyist. The commission then heard and acted on numerous fine-waiver appeals, granting several full waivers or reductions and approving staff recommendations on others, and terminated a number of inactive campaign treasurer appointments. Finally, the executive director briefed the commission on the 2025 legislative session, noting that staffing requests are tied to Sunset recommendations and that the House had preliminarily recommended about half of the commission’s appropriations requests.

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• I move that the rules be waived and HB 5205E be taken up and read twice by title.
• I move that the rules be waived and HB 5301E be taken up and read twice by title.
• I move that the rules be waived and that SB 2508E be read twice by title.
• I move that the rules be waived and that SB 2512E be read twice by title.
• I move that the rules be waived and that SB 2506E be read twice by title.

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• rule charter provision.
• rule charter provision.
• rule charter provision.
• rule charter provision.
• rule charter provision.

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• The Chair rules that the bill has passed subject to signature.
• The Chair rules that the bill has passed subject to signatures.
• The Chair rules that the bill has passed subject to signatures.
• Chair rules that the bill has passed subject to signatures.
• Chair rules that the bill has passed subject to signatures. on now to substitute Chair, rules of the

Bills: HB1759 , HB2417 , HB2632 , HB2249 , HB2574 , HB2309 , HB2235 , SGA9066 , SGA9246 , SGA9268 , SGA9267

Committee: Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

Keywords: designation, commemoration, December 12, local observance, cultural significance, military justice, victims' rights, militia, Washington code, legal protections, citizenship, immigration, terminology, rights, legal status, HB 2249, Washington Technology Solutions, WaTech, civil service, classified service

Transcript Highlights:

• To come to the podium, we're going to be looking at Rules Docket 24-211-2501, Rules of the Idaho State
• Contractors Board, a pending rule.
• You will find those rules on page 110 through 112 of your Rules Review book.
• I'm going to note that in your rule and in your fee table, the language in the rule also states 'not
• to the more restrictive rule, or the rule that kind of trumps.

Committee: House Business

Transcript Highlights:

• But it's rule.
• </c><00:59:33.119><c> in</c><00:59:33.359><c> rule</c> Senate ethic ethics rules in rule Senate ethic
• about Senate Rule 56.4, but Senate<01:05:03.920><c> rule</c> Senate rule Senate rule 56.4<01:05:06.160
• ><c> rules.
• That's according to our rules. benefit. That's according to our rules.

Committee: Senate Rules and Administration - Subcommittee on Ethical Conduct

Transcript Highlights:

• So we urge you to support this pending rule.
• I'm here in support of the rule change.
• amended the original published rule from big game ungulates to big game, we believe it made the rule
• I think it means the rule is in committee. The rule is still in the committee.
• If the pending rule, no action is taken on it, the pending rule would go away as of signing die.

Committee: Senate Resources and Environment

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• Those rules were generated about six months ago, and there was a lot of controversy around those rules
• What it does is very similar to the rule.
• The rules are suspended. The House now has consideration of House Bill 936.
• What rules that we already have in place for safety measures?
• They'll be able to make rules.

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• </c> resolution um and to bring these rules resolution um and to bring these rules into<00:12:12.279>
• </c> into order if you look at the rules into order if you look at the rules before<00:12:15.920><c>
• There are also changes to, and clarification primarily to, the rules. That is Rule 35.
• Rule Rule 35<00:13:56.480><c> there</c><00:13:57.000><c> are</c><00:13:57.360><c> clarifications</c>
• to rule 39 35 there are clarifications to rule 39 on<00:14:00.040><c> division</c><00:14:00.399><c>

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• First up on the agenda, we have rules governing 131-2701, 2501 Taylor Thomas, administrative rules on
• With that in mind, I'll go over the rule specifically.
• This is the foundational terms used throughout your rules.
• We wrapped up the final rule in December.
• The way that the rule was written, it required that liquor be sold on a weekly basis, which The rule

Committee: House State Affairs

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• The Administrative Rules Subcommittee. The Administrative Rules Subcommittee.
• You're recognized to present the rule. Our rule is pretty simple.
• You recognize to present the rule. Our rule is pretty simple.
• So we did, in all good-faith effort, put that rule plus these other rules, plus our other rules, out.
• rules as outlined in its report. ...to repeal three rules and keep and extend its other rules as outlined

Committee: All ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES

Summary: The Administrative Rules Subcommittee of the Arkansas Legislative Council reviewed several agency rules and requests. The Insurance Department’s amendment to its holding company system rule was reviewed and approved, as were two State Board of Election Commissioners rules: one clarifying poll watcher conduct, vote challenges, and provisional voting, and another increasing pay for certified election monitors and defining training, observation, and report-writing compensation. The Arkansas Financial Education Commission also had its rule reviewed and approved after removing membership requirements tied to DEI language to comply with Act 938. The committee held over the Department of Education’s request to be excluded from reporting requirements for one month to allow further discussion about who should write or implement the rules. A major portion of the meeting focused on the Department of Human Services’ request to be excluded from reporting requirements for Acts 567, 568, 967, and 1025. DHS said CMS had raised comparability and other federal approval concerns, especially for the dental and diagnostic lab provisions, and that it might not be able to meet the acts’ effective dates. DHS described several possible paths forward, including broader benefit changes, waivers, or splitting the dental provisions so the pediatric rate increase could move separately from the special-needs adult cap increase. The Arkansas State Dental Association disputed DHS’s conclusion that the acts could not be implemented as written, argued that Act 1025 is workable, and urged DHS to continue pursuing implementation and preserve the September 1 effective date where possible. Public testimony also supported expanded dental access for adults with disabilities and special needs. After discussion, the committee voted not to exclude DHS from reporting requirements for those acts. The committee then reviewed the Division of Higher Education’s Act 781 report. The division said it has 32 rules in effect, asked to repeal three rules—two replaced by new rules and one no longer supported by authority or current law—and to continue the remaining 29 rules. The committee approved that request, with the repeals effective upon adjournment of the Legislative Council meeting on January 16, 2026. The meeting concluded with no questions on the remaining written rulemaking updates from prior and current sessions, which were filed without further action.

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• The House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee has received and reviewed the temporary rule
• The House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee has received and reviewed the pending rule from
• The House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee has received and reviewed the pending rule from
• for licensing of daycare facilities; proposed rule 16.06.03; Docket 16.06.12, 25.1; and 24.13.01, rules
• Senate Bill 1348 as amended, 1322. 16.06.03 rules for licensing of daycare facilities proposed rule docket